Jonathan Frid Quotations

Meanwhile, I had planned to go west and get a teaching job, or do that along with some work in Hollywood, such as television or film.

I went over there to get a classical training and discovered that Canadians, because they are British subjects, are able to work without a permit.

Twice I had been stopped by these jobs, and I thought the role on Dark Shadows would go on for about three or four weeks. And then, the phenomenon began, the role caught on, the mail started to flood in.

It took so much of the tension out of me that my friends and family won't see me on this show.

I'm interested in what makes ordinary people, like yourself, tick the way you do. And the way I tick. And the way somebody else ticks.

I never pushed to be on television again.

I have this cozy house here and I get three pensions from the States. I've done nicely.

I'm constantly watching people. Watching their strengths and weaknesses. I find myself going into theater less and less, let alone horror. I gave that up when I was seven or eight years old.

I'm interested in villainy.

I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender.

I'm an old curmudgeon and I know it.

If you have millions of dollars you are not going to get to continue doing what you want. You are into a world of commitment to that money and all the people that helped you get that money.

People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that.

All fame ever does for you is get attention for the work you really want to do.

The best theatre I've done, I've done right here in this living room.

To me, horror is when I see somebody lying. I mean a person I know. A friend. And he's telling me something that I accept. And then suddenly, as he or she is telling it, there's something that gives them away. They're not telling me the truth.